MONTGOMERY, Ala.  Mark Twain wrote that "the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." A new edition of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" will try to find out if that holds true by replacing the N-word with "slave" in an effort not to offend readers.

When other people decide to edit anothers written word that word should no longer bear the authors name. When someone writes, the finished work is the way they want it to be. This was written in an era when that word was used in the context he wrote it in and should not be removed. Could Lincolns address at Gettysburg be changed if some future generation decided some words offended them? I think this opens Pandoras box for wholesale alterations to historical works and is a mistake! If they don't want their children to be exposed to history then ban the book and let their children grow up to be ignorant of history.

I disagree with this decision as well. Our society needs to stop sheltering our kids from the harsh realities of the past and the present. Valuable life lessons are learned from these experiences. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

Well hell if they plan to change up historic historic writing to appease the masses might as well rewrite the Declaration of Independence;

He has excited domestic insurrection among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.

Well hell if they plan to change up historic historic writing to appease the masses might as well rewrite the Declaration of Independence;

He has excited domestic insurrection among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.

On the other hand, if this puts the book into the hands of kids who would not otherwise be allowed to read it due to forces beyond their control (overprotective parents and the school boards they frighten), then maybe we shouldn't be so quick to judge.

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